The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes
- Title:
- The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes
- Speaker:
- Phil Plait
- Description:
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Phil Plait was on the team at Hubble Space Telescope that discovered the first exoplanet ever detected -- until they realized they'd made a mistake. What happened next? Follow along as Plait shows how science progresses -- which includes a robust amount of making and correcting errors. "The price of doing science is admitting when you're wrong, but the payoff is the best there is: knowledge and understanding," he says.
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDTalks
- Duration:
- 11:08
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